Project: 4-Quad (56k = no)

lay-z-boy · 27 May 2007 at 21:35

Hey guys

After finally getting all the parts to my new rig, it is time to retire my trusty athlon x2 from its house and move in the new hardware, however, with the new stuff outputting so much heat, drastic measures were called for.

The system is called 4 quad thanks to gigabytes great marketing of the '6 dual miracle' on my Pentium 4 mainboard reminding me i can apply the same logic to this build

4x cores
4x sticks of ram
4x hard drives in raid 0
4x 120.1 equiv. radiators for water cooling

hence the 4-Quad name

Systems specs:

Intel X3210
Asus P5K Deluxe
4GB Crucial Ballistix
Nvidia Quadro FX 4600
X-FI Elite Pro
4* Hitachi Deskstar sataII
2 dvd-rw drives
Tagan 580w

Cooling:
2*120.2 radiators with 100cfm delta's
2*D5's
Apogee GT
Switftech mini-res
Blue star high performance car coolant

Case:
Akasa Eclipse 62

Still trying to work out where im going to put the second radiator on the akasa, i really dont want to drill into my case yet as im not that confident.

Pictures to come in a sec

Jokester · 27 May 2007 at 21:36

Nice, looking forward to seeing some pics.

Jokester

Jonny L · 27 May 2007 at 21:42

Sounds great.

james.miller · 27 May 2007 at 21:46

i think quad-quad has a better ring to it hehe

that would be an immense pc. i'd be dead worried about 4 drives in raid-0 though. Have you considered using a backup drive?

alexakasloth · 27 May 2007 at 21:47

wow sounds powerful, cant wait to see some pics for this!

lay-z-boy · 27 May 2007 at 22:28

Cooling:

Hardware:

-Nick- · 27 May 2007 at 22:28

that's immense, what's your budget?

Jokester · 27 May 2007 at 22:30

lay-z-boy said:
Nvidia Quadro FX 4600

Just looking at the photo, is that the workstation version of the 8800GTX?

Jokester

lay-z-boy · 27 May 2007 at 22:31

-Nick- said:
that's immense, what's your budget?

Too much

Jokester said:
Just looking at the photo, is that the workstation version of the 8800GTX?

Jokester

Bang on.

Jonny L · 27 May 2007 at 22:41

Now your address is? And will you be leaving your back door unlocked?

lay-z-boy · 27 May 2007 at 22:59

Need to find a blowhole template for the swiffy 120.2......

can only find thermochill templates...

Begbie · 27 May 2007 at 23:56

Holy crap batman, thats some setup!

Raikiri · 28 May 2007 at 00:07

Deltas *shakes head*

Otherwise it looks awesome

taz488 · 28 May 2007 at 00:09

christ, i want some!

-Nick- · 28 May 2007 at 00:24

freaking jealous tbh, enjoy it ye lucky ****** lol

-Nick- · 28 May 2007 at 00:24

sorry double post

mysticsniper · 28 May 2007 at 04:19

I have to put myself down for this one. I am really curious to see it getting built. Looks soo sweet. GL to ya

Borden · 28 May 2007 at 09:21

That looks awesome, the delta's on those radiators are gonna give some nice temps. I hope you don't mind me asking but where the hell do you get the money for all that??? You're only 17 years old :eek:

I'm 16 and i don't see how i could ever get enough money by the time i'm 17 to spend that much on a pc without spending all my savings!!

Matt7613 · 28 May 2007 at 09:22

Wow, can't wait to see the final product!

I'm hopefully going to be adding water cooling to my Akasa Eclipse 62, so I hope your build will inspire me to be creative when I knock up my rig.

-Matt

gt_junkie · 28 May 2007 at 09:25

mark1 said:
That looks awesome, the delta's on those radiators are gonna give some nice temps. I hope you don't mind me asking but where the hell do you get the money for all that??? You're only 17 years old I'm 16 and i don't see how i could ever get enough money by the time i'm 17 to spend that much on a pc without spending all my savings!!

I know just what you mean!

Was about to say the same thing and then remembered buying a 28" sony widescreen and bang & olufsen stereo at 16 (i'm 26 now!). Whole lot rushed me £1200-£1300 if i remember correctly!

Like you suggested - that was indeed all my savings! IMO it was worth every penny!

Nice one lay-z-boy! Can't wait to watch the build.

Good luck mate!

gt